New user and I just want to add my two cents here.
We all kind of knew that a new approach to an iconic character like Superman might be met with skepticism or at least a rebuttal. The original film has been put up on such a high pedestal that critics especially only remember it fondly. Now, I am a comic book reader and have been for many years. I watched Superman get beaten bloody and die at the hands of Doomsday, read Infinite Crisis where hero's die and everything is not pretty and saccharine.
Some critics are able to see this new vision and accept that Superman can have a darker side, some just can't. We really have a love it or hate it situation going on here. So critics responded favorably to Batman going much darker than Tim Burton interpreted him, but they feel the opposite when it's applied to Superman. I always thought that darker was how Batman should be, I mean his parents were murdered in front of him as a child.
So it doesn't mean that the movie is bad, it just means that the opinion of this new take is split right down the middle. RT scores are just a percentage of who likes it, based against who didn't like it. How are you to know which side of that you will fall?
Comic book fans seem to be loving it, because they have something else to base the character on rather than just the Donner films or even Returns. People that are not familiar with the comics, are having a hard time understanding how this character can be dark. IGN, Ain't It Cool News, and HitFlix all gave the movie fantastic reviews. They understand the comic book character and not the movie character...they can separate the two. Regardless of what the critics are saying, a lot of people just wanted to see Superman be "super" and it seems that was the goal of this film...to show that other side that the other movies just hinted at.
Just my take on things...going to see it Sunday.
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mtaffer on June 13th, 2013, 3:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.
